Book of the Week
Every week, Smart Office staff and leadership recommend books for business leaders and technology entrepreneurs. Read the same books that have helped shape Smart Office into an award-winning communication, mobile marketing, and field management technology provider for franchise and direct selling enterprises.
“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
― Charlie “Tremendous” Jones
“Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter” by Liz Wiseman
This Week’s Title: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman
Recommended By: Alan Alpert, Smart Office Founder
Favorite Quote: “The highest quality of thinking cannot emerge without learning. Learning can’t happen without mistakes.” – Amy Wiseman
Why We Love It: Pinterest and Instagram are flooded with quotes about learning from your mistakes, but what does that mean for direct sellers? Any time you approach a new beginning – starting a family, launching a business, or approaching self-improvement – you are bound to stumble and occasionally stall. In direct sales, you can lean not only on your own experience, but on the leaders and industry veterans who have done before you. Your upline leaders have already made the mistakes – they stumbled, they stalled, and then they moved forward again. And the best leaders know how to use their own expertise and skills to enhance the people around them. This book is an excellent guide to the qualities that help the best leaders amplify their teams.
Book Summary: A thought-provoking, accessible, and essential exploration of why some leaders (“Diminishers”) drain capability and intelligence from their teams, while others (“Multipliers”) amplify it to produce better results. Including a foreword by Stephen R. Covey, as well the five key disciplines that turn smart leaders into genius makers, Multipliers is a must-read for everyone from first-time managers to world leaders. – Amazon
About the Author: Liz Wiseman is an American researcher, speaker, executive advisor, and the author of The New York Times bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, The Multiplier Effect: Tapping – Wikipedia
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